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The lengths my son will go to for Sport Relief

3/10/2014

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My ten year old son Matthew is doing something for Sport Relief that, in my opinion, is genuinely impressive. He is going to swim 1.5km in our local pool in Daventry on 23rd March – that’s 60 lengths. 

This challenge is one he has set himself of his own volition and without any input from his parents (although we did have to register him).

From a personal perspective, I was a much older teenager before I was capable of swimming a mile so for him to be prepared to have a go at ten is amazing.

He is taking it all very seriously and is doing, and planning more, training swims between now and the event. He is raising money for the Sport Relief charity and in that regard you might just be willing to help.  Here’s a link to his Sport Relief Giving page;

 https://my.sportrelief.com/sponsor/MatthewBaldwin10

As a parent you get used to your child’s abilities, attitudes and interests; but sometimes they surprise you and in doing so make you proud. And I am proud, so in my best cockney geezer;

“Go on son, give it some!”

I’ll be giving it some too, both in terms of dad style encouragement from the poolside and in terms of my hard earned cash.  He has set himself a target of £100 and he’ll blow that target to pieces for sure. The only question is by how much?

You can help if you want to. 

And if you can’t, you can always wish him luck here, or on Facebook.

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UPDATE: Matthew swam his 1500 metres in 42 minutes and raised an excellent £326 via his Sportrelief charity page. I was impressed and more than a little proud too. Well done Son!
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